> Commercially talking, I've seen Solarwinds have nice user-friendly > product family named Orion, there are a few nice tools, it's built on a > modular base, so you can buy only one, or integrate few of them. > And is not really expensive, prices are reasonable.
As a Solarwinds customer let me say a few words... It is a pretty decent product from an interface perspective and yes, not too expensive in the grand scheme of things. It is fullfeatured and not too fiddly However, installation/maintenance of the software is a huge time sink. It is so bad that our policy is to always hire a consultant to come on-site and do the upgrade. The consultant is typically on the phone with Solarwinds support for most of the day dealing with some database or licensing issues. If it were a free or open source application this would be expected. In the commercial world, a bit more polish is expected of a $30K piece of software. Make sure you budget for this kind of time or level of support if you go there. The hardware requirements are also a bit of a concern as one scales up; make sure you have enough RAM and disk I/O. Caveat Emptor! ~JasonG _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/